The Wilmingtonian., 1887-05-28
BILL NYE coRREoTs AN ERROR.
How Correspondent Located Him in
the Wrong Mansion.

How Correspondent Located Him Ir
the Wrong Mansion.
If you will excuse me for Introducing 4
purely personal NATTER | would like &c
make an explanation at this time which con
Germs me, of course, more than any ono else
and yet it ought to he made in the interest,
of general justice also. refer to recent
article published in western paper md
handsomely illustrated, in which, among
others, find picture of my residence
The description which accompanies the cnt
among other things, goes OH to state as fol
lows: "The structure is elaborate, massive
and beautiful. 1t consists of three stories.
basement and attic, and covers a large area
on the ground. 1t contains an elevator elec-
trlc bells, steam heating arrangements, baths,
hot and cold, in every room, electric lights,
laundry, fire escapes etc. The grounds CON
slst of at least five acres, overlooking the
river for several miles up and down, with
hhe boating and private fish pond of two
acres in cNteut containing every known
variety of game fish. The grounds are finely
laid out IN handsome drives and walks. and
when finished the establishment will he one
of the most complete and beautiful in the
northwest
No one realizes more fully than the great
power OF the press for good or evil Rightly
used the newspaper can make or unmake
men, and wrongly used it can be even more
sinister. might say knowing this as do,
want to be placed right before the people.
The above is not q correct description Of my
mouse, for several reasons. In the first plncp,
1t Is larger and more robust in appearance.
and in the second place il has not the same
tout ensemble aS my residence NV hnuss is
less ohtrusive and less arrogant in its de-
meanor than the one described and il has no
elevator in It,
My house is not the kind that seems to
crave an elevator. An elevator in my house
would lose Ronev There is no popular
clamor for one, and il | were to Put one in
would hSefe To abolish the dining room. 1t
wotsf~ss Interfere with the parlor.
ha~sieurnel recently that the correspond
ent Who came here to write up this matter
visited the town while was in the south. and
as lie could not find me he was at the mercy
of strangers A young man who lives here
and who is just in the heyday of life gleefully
consented to show the correspondent my new
residence not yet completed So they went
over and examined the new Oliver Wendell
Holmes hospital, which will be completed in
June, and which is Of course handsome
structure, bnt quiet different from my house
in many particulars.
For instance, my residence is of n different
school of architecture, being rather on the
scandinavian order while the foregoing has
a tendency toward the Ironic The hospital
belongs to very recent school, as may say,
while my residence, in its architectural meth
DDS and conception, goes back to the time of
the mound builders time when Gothic
hole in the ground was considered the mag
mum bonum and the scrumptuous thing in
art. If the reader will go around behind the
above building and notice it carefully on the
east side, he will not discover dried coon
skin nailed to the rear brcadths of the wood
shed. That alone ought to convince an OBJ
serving man that the house is not mine. The
coon skin l"gardant will always he found en-
blnzonel on my arms, together with blue
Goddess Of Liberty and my name in green
India ink.
The front part of my house runs back to the
time of Polypus the First, while the l. runs
back as far as the cistern.
IN closing, let me say that am not finding
fault with any one because the above error
mas crept into the public prints, for it is really
q parlonable error, after all. Neither do
wish to be considered as striving to eliminate
my name from the columns of the press, for
no one could be more ticked than am over
n friendly notice Of my arrival in town or a |
timely reference TO my courteous bearing and |
youthful appearance, but 1 want to see the
Oliver Wendell Holmes hospital succeed, and
SO come out il this way over my own sig
nature aud admit that the building does not
belong to me, and that, so far as | am con-
celned, the man who files lien on it will
simply fritter away his timc.-Bil Nye in
New York World.